Peculate
Google has a product called AdSense for Feeds (by the FeedBurner team) that inserts relevant adverts into an RSS or Atom feed. The keyword here (heh) being ‘relevant’, so I was surprised when I saw the following advert pop up in Google Reader this morning:
My first thought was “hey, our relevancy scoring sucks!” Then I looked again… and noticed that the text that ‘should’ say “Ads by Google” actually says something else entirely.
Oh, right, not us.
Posted at 09:19:38 GMT on 9th March 2009.